Sure, you could strap a rocket to one and launch it from an already-airborne plane, but that was expensive and dangerous at best. NASA had no use for a space vehicle capable of suborbital powered ...
Quick, what is a car that's actually a motorcycle that can go 400 miles per hour and has 1,000 horsepower? The answer is this - the Castrol Rocket, from Hot Rod Conspiracy, Triumph and others.
In many ways, it feels like a re-skin of the rocket launcher, rather than a whole new weapon. Don't let these wings be the end of us Chief. The Fuel Rod SPNKr has the same silhouette as the rocket ...